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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 13:11:10 +1100
To: Alex Varouxis <alexv@er*.co*>
From: anscott@hi*.ne*.au*
Subject: Re: wreck diving configuration
Cc: techdiver@terra.net

Oh sorry Alex I thought you you were going to tell me it was something that
dangerous that would require you to need all those safety devices, i didn't
relise it was gonna be so simple. If all these things make you feel safer in
the water then by all means take them.


At 21:05 14/01/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Let me come down to a 4th grade level for you. Live boating is self
explanatory, due 
>to conditions the boat can not anchor. Conditions meaning water conditions,
type of 
>wreck,  deco commitment in rough water, etc. It would also cover doing a
search 
>trying to locate an item. Not real hard to figure out is it. 
>
>With your extensive diving back ground you probably know that.
>
>Alex
>
>anscott@hi*.ne*.au* wrote:
>> 
>> Ok Alex so enlighten me. What DO you mean by Live Boating??? Where I dive
>> non of the wrecks are considered recreational so I suppose I am not used to
>> defining between the two types. We still don't find a need to take so much
>> emergency gear, maybe we're just better divers ;) or maybe our two types of
>> diving are not comparable. Give me an example of a dive you do where you
>> need all this, I would be most interested in that type of diving, it sounds
>> very exciting and on the edge.
>> Scott
>> 
>> At 17:11 14/01/97 -0500, you wrote:
>> >If you are the diver you try to make out to be, you would know what the term
>> >Live Boating means. If you don't know ASK? Two backup lights on some dives,
>> >YOU BET. A Epirb on some dives, YOU BET. Flares on some dives, YOU BET. This
>> >is NOT recreational wreck diving, you just don't get it.
>> >
>
>
>-- 
>Alex Varouxis
>Associated Design & Mfg.
>814 North Henry Street
>Alexandria, VA 22314
>(703)549-5999
>
>




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